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Nazis in Newark (Hardcover)
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"Well researched, readable, and very interesting" --Choice "Nazis
in Newark is a model local history that reaches well beyond the
border of Essex County, New Jersey, to the national and
international arenas. By recounting so many sides of the
complicated encounter between Nazis and Jews in Newark, Warren
Grover has fashioned a world of street politics, boycotts, Nazi
louts and Jewish bruisers that is as compelling and telling in its
detail as any grand tome on the supposed failures and successes of
American Jewish resistence to the Holocaust... I recommend Nazis in
Newark. I intend to use it as a cornerstone of my teaching for some
time to come." --Professor Michael Alexander The Jewish Quarterly
Review "Very few people today realize that the U.S. mainland was
the scene of battles against the Nazis. Warren Grover has produced
an outstanding work on this subject. The writing is incisive, the
ideas are both original and insightful and the thesis masterfully
developed and executed. Must reading for anyone interested in
American history and ethnic studies." --William B. Helmreich, CUNY
Graduate Center and author of The Enduring Community "Thanks to
tenacious research and deft story-telling, Warren Grover has put
the politics of extremism in one city in the shadow of Fascism,
Nazism and Communism, and has thus illuminated the terrible
dilemmas of the 1930s. His book also compels the reader to consider
an historical anomaly: champions of the Third Reich come across as
victims whose civil liberties were infringed, and the gangs of
Newark responsible for these violations tended to be Jewish. Such
ironies make Nazis in Newark worth the interest of anyone intrigued
by ethnic conflict and politcal violence in urban America."
--Stephen Whitfield, Max Richter Professor of American
Civilization, Brandeis University "In this fast-paced, thorough
study of anti-Nazism in Newark, scholar Warren Grover tells the
compelling story of how that city's Jews battled their Nazi enemies
in the streets and in the marketplace. With meticulous research,
Grover adds an important new chapter to our understanding of Jewish
reaction. He chronicles how tough, blue collar Jews physically
intimidated home-grown Nazis in such groups as the German-American
Bund, while a mild-mannered Jewish physician organized an economic
boycott against German goods being sold in some of Newark's finest
stores. Grover amply demonstrates that Newark's Jews were neither
oblivious nor passive toward the enemy in their midst." --Alan M.
Kraut, American University "Warren Grover tells a fascinating story
in Nazis in Newark. He is a prominent local historian who knows the
demography and history of Newark and its environs like the back of
his hand. His analysis of the attitude of various groups in Newark
toward the threat to Jews posed by Nazism is especially
insightful." --Bennett Muraskin, Jewish Currents
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